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line of Angus Mackirk gold prospecting equipment. See the complete catalog of products here. Power Sluices - Dredges - Stream sluices - Concentrators - Screens - Regulators - and much more... |
Power Sluices Dredges Stream Sluices Concentrators Screens Regulators Recirculators and much more... |
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Multi-Purpose Recirculating Sluice
Box Kit
Multi Purpose Recirculating Sluice Box Kit is built around our
patented rugged Folding Sluice Box. With over 5,000 sold nation
wide. This is a true Multi Purpose Machine. The sluice can be used
alone, it can be used with our Stand that includes adjustable legs
to make it easy when leveling out your Sluice Box in any terrain,
add Header Kit when only having standing water or no water, than
it becomes a Highbanker. Our kit consist of a Self Locking Backpacking
Sluice Box that will unfold from 15" to 50" for easy transport
and storage. Header Kit with a 1200 GPH Pump, 7' of 1-1/8"
hose, bolt with rubber washer & hose clamp. Sluice Stand that
breaks down to 24" with adjustable legs. We have also include
a how to video and complete instructions. With the addition of your
30 gallon reservoir and tailing buckets (not included) , you can
turn this unit into a recirculator. That's 3 machines for the price
of one! Works directly in any water source (Creeks, Ponds, Rivers, Etc.) or even from a reservoir container. *With the addition of your 30 gallon reservoir and tailing buckets (not included), you can turn this higbanker unit into a recirculator When you own your own kit, you will be ready to find gold with or without running water. Supplied with easy, how to use written instructions.
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| Gold-N-Sand Hand Dredge -Forget the PUMP N' DUMPS! The Gold-N-Sand hand dredge pumps directly into a bucket or sluice
box (see "Boomer Box") so you can go after that gold and
not spend all your time trying to get to the shore to dump your
load! The old pump 'n' dumps are a thing of the past and now it's
faster with the Gold-N-Sand hand dredge. Gold-N-Sand will make your
prospecting life a whole lot easier! Included with you Gold-N-Sand pump is 6 foot hose, 2 gallon filter bucket w/barbed connection on lid. Three specialty nozzles (see sidebar) with extension, instructions. Legal for gold prospecting in CA.
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| NEW G-1 Concentrator
The new G-1 Concentrator is the best of the best! This new unit was developed in the same way that the "Easy Pan" was. We started with a blank slate and built the G-1 by eliminating one problem at a time from all the other hydraulic concentrators out there. Here is the list of problems you'll be familiar with that we solved. 1) Too heavy. 2) Too bulky to transport. 3) Poor washing of material. 4) Too time consuming at clean up. 5) Poor fine gold recovery 6) Can't handle a shovel full of gravel all at once without overloading the sluice. 7) Too expensive! All the issues that have hampered our prospecting in the past are gone! We now have a simple, light weight, compact folding, powerful washing, SUPER FAST clean up, superior fine gold recovery, shovel full at a time, inexpensive hydraulic concentrator! This power sluice is twice as big as any other in it's class, yet is less weight and cost less than any other full size high banker on the market!!
Convert your G-1 power sluice into a dredge with the Dredge adaptor kit! Comes with dredge hose adaptor - 2.0".................$165.00 |
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| Jimmy Sierra prospecting pouch JS-PP Heavy duty cordura fabric with full length
tube that holds most smaller picks. |
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| THE TRINITY BOWL The
Trinity bowl is designed for moving many pans full of material before
you do a clean up. So you could say the Trinity
bowl is a production pan, for moving volume amounts of pans
full to very minimal clean-ups. It is made of no-break polypropylene
plastic with a UV additive built into the plastic to keep it from
fading in the sunlight. These are important features to have in
a pan that is guaranteed for life.
The Trinity bowl is made in 2 distinct colors, blue and green, I
have a lot of people ask which is the better one, and I must say
that it is probably blue. This particular blue is actually called
Midnight Purple and the gold really jumps up off the plastic, so
it is easy to see even the very finest of gold. The flour gold is
easy to see as well.
When you are washing the gravel out of
your pan there are 3 reversed rifles at the base of the larger riffles.
Those three reversed riffles are a safety
feature; they act just like sluice box riffles-any gold that
did not drop into the trap will jump out behind these three reversed
riffles and not be washed out. This way you can wash
off the waste rocks and gravel a lot easier and faster than in a
regular conventional gold pan. THE CLEAN UP: After you have washed most of the waste material out of the trap it is time to work the bulk of the black sand out of the trap as well. This is where it can become tricky, you must submerse the sluice below the water line and move the pan from side to side, IT IS IMPORTANT TO GO SIDE TO SIDE, the material should be moving back and forth in the trap (not in and out but from side to side), this allows the gold to really have a chance to drop out and into the sluice channel and flare of the sluice. NOW AT THE SAME TIME YOU MUST DIP AND RAISE THE PAN IN AND OUT OF THE WATER. This allows water to come into the pan and wash out though the sluice, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER SIDE TO SIDE AND UP AND DOWN IN THE SAME MOVEMENTS. Once this is accomplished the black sand concentrates will flow right out of the pan and the gold settles right into the flare of the sluice. You continue to do this until you are left with nothing but your gold. It is a very easy way of panning once it is mastered it makes panning so much more fun. To get the gold out of the pan take a snuffer bottle and sniff the gold off of the platform (the large flat area in front of the first sluice riffle) and continue moving the gold onto the platform until you have retrieved all of the gold. |
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| What's different about the Gold
Rush Pro series™ Gold Pan? Specific improvements over all other gold pans: Agitation is the primary function of settling heavy minerals in a slurry of water and gravel. When a mixture of water, sand and gravel are agitated, the particles are put into a state of suspension. This opens spaces between the individual particles allowing heavier minerals the gap or room to move down and through the other common particles. 1. Full diameter flat bottom - Spreads material out thinner allowing more rapid stratification of the aggregate. Thinner material gives gold less distance and therefore less time in order to settle to the bottom. 2. Agitation knobs - These create more effective agitation. While the pan is being worked from side to side, front to back and in a circular motion the knobs collide with the water and particles. This creates more agitation of the material than a standard smooth bottomed gold pan. 3. A more vertical side wall - All other pans have low sloped sides. This allows material to move up and down the walls of the pan while creating little obstruction unto which agitation could occur. The Gold Rush Pro Series Pan has sides that are nearly upright. This creates a wall that forces the material to change directions abruptly, creating even more agitation. 4. Skewed cylinder design creates multiple functions. a) A reverse cut or trap on one side. This allows heavy minerals to be trapped while aggressively shedding lighter waste material. b) A transitional section between the reverse cut side and the open cut side that allows the material to be gradually upgraded or super concentrated. c) A Open cut or outward tilting side. This allows for a finishing section to work the upgraded concentrates down to clean gold or precious metals. d) A thin horizontal rib in the finishing section allows precious metals to remain behind the rib so black sands can be more quickly panned off. e) A completely smooth section in the finishing area for cleaning up super fine gold. The combination of all these improvements is a gold pan that captures, concentrates and cleans gold and precious metals faster, easier, and more accurately than any other pan in history, that's why it's patent pending! Through it's state of the art design this pan allows everyone to be fast and accurate at panning gold! No other pan even
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Manufactured in Arizona, USA by Hodan Machine; these picks are being used by prospectors across the nation. Made from heat treated carbon steel to a surface hardness of Rc 50 – 55 and a depth of .030 inches, the picks are then tempered, giving these tools outstanding wear resistance and durability. Each pick is fitted with an American Hickory handle which is both wedged and pinned to the head. A small button magnet is attached to the end of the handle for picking out small pieces of ferrous trash. We have two sizes available: a 16” handle and a 24” handle. The 16” is a perfect size for wearing on the belt, while the larger 24” can also be worn on the hip or slung across the shoulder. The 16” version has been preferred by detectorists swinging VLF-type machines such as: Fisher Gold Bugs, Whites GoldMasters, Tesoro Lobos, etc. All three sizes side by side >>>>> 16" - 24" - 35" |
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Questions?
Call Larry at (916) 225-9150
"Site to Site, Season to Season"
Big Valley never sleeps while its customers are awake!
Located in Citrus Heights, California, we are an easy drive from Sacramento, Fair Oaks, Roseville, Rocklin, Orangevale, Folsom, Carmichael, Citrus Heights, Loomis, Woodland, Davis, Granite Bay, Cameron Park, El Dorado Hills, Elk Grove, Placerville, Auburn, Marysville, Dixon, Yuba City, Lodi, Stockton, Galt and many more places. Call for directions!